Big international festival in Kyoto on Nov. 3

The Kyoto City International Foundation is hosting Open Day 2012 on Nov. 3.

The festival, lasting from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., will feature a concert by a musician from Okinawa, lectures and workshops to learn different ways of counting numbers in various cultures, an opportunity to try on ethnic costumes, a flea market and a cafe run by Japanese learners and tutors.

Admission is free. The venue, Kyoto International Community House, is a six-minute walk from Keage Station on the Tozai subway line.

The Osaka Symphony Orchestra will play music composed by Rossini, Strauss, Mascagni and Rodgers for babies in two concerts next Wednesday in Suita, Osaka Prefecture.

The concerts are welcome to all children, no matter how young. The first session will start at 10:45 a.m. and the second at 1:30 p.m. Admission is ¥1,500 for adults and ¥500 for children. The venue, May Theater, is near Hankyu Suita Station on the Hankyu Senri Line and a 15-minute walk from JR Suita Station on the JR Tokaido Line.

Visitors to Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, will be able to view cherry blossoms and autumn leaves at the same time during a festival running for the entire month of November.

The Obara area in the city is known for 10,000 unique cherry trees that blossom twice a year, in spring and autumn. The area can be accessed by taking a shuttle bus from Yakusa Station on the Aichi Kanjo Tetsudo Line.